Weird Kernel Panic

Hey guys,
I have noticed something weird and I have eliminated everything and still don't have an answer. I installed the Gen2 Intel SSD and had to use carbon cloner because I can't boot from my OSX DVD all of a sudden. When I insert the DVD and restart the computer and attempt to boot from it, it will sit at the grey screen with the apple logo/spinning wheel and eventually give me a kernel panic. I have ran a long and short hardware test and nothing is wrong with my system. Also, if I use the terminal command to install OSX to another drive when I try to boot from that drive it does the exact same thing. This has to be something common. I didn't copy the kernel panic log but can I look it up to post it here? Any advice would be great.

I don't think it'd be the disk itself- he should have got CRCs or other errors way before install completion if that were the case. (Although the whole inability to boot from it is a bit fishy - makes me wonder whether the CD/DVD drive is the culprit?)

Obviously the "sticking point" is the new SSD. But you can't really do much else until you narrow down the source - so I say swap the SSD for a spare (tape) HD, and try it again. If it works, you know it's related to the SSD, and if it doesn't, there's something else afoot.

The easier solution is to try OS X install on another machine, since you can remove the disk as a potential error source without screwing with hardware (but only if you're willing to install a potential busted copy of OS X on a spare machine)

No, I have put in the stock HD and it still does it. Even the newly installed superdrive is doing it. That's where I first noticed it. I would suspect the ram but I have ran two different hardware tests.

Nope I'm still using the original. Never used to cd other than bootcamp drivers for Windows 7 which I have used several times. But never for an OSX install. First time I tried was a couple of days ago when the kernel panic started occurring. Will Apple ship me another OSX dvd?

Did you verify that both drives were working after the second one was installed? I would disconnect the newly installed superdrive and try to boot off of the original (after making sure all cables are solidly plugged in).

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